Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 158

But it was of no avail, she would not give it up.

Who acts: ring, daughter · What happens: be, not give up · To what, where: ring

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 avail	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avail	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 avail	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 avail	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 avail	det
6	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 avail	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 give	advmod
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avail	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 give	compound:prt
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 avail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ring					of no avail	tree rules
2	not give up	would	daughter	ring					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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